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Yanamamo

A semi-nomadic Native South American people, numbering approximately 22,000 (9,500 in northern Brazil and the rest in Venezuela), where most continue to follow their traditional way of life. The Yanamamo language belongs to the Macro-Chibcha family. In November 1991 Brazil granted the Yanamami possession of their original land, 58,395 km/36,293 sq mi on its northern border.

The language is divided into several dialects, although there is a common ritual language. Together with other Amazonian peoples, the Yanamami have been involved in trying to conserve the rainforest where they live. Gold prospectors on their territory in Brazil have caused environmental damage and spread new diseases, such as measles, malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, and AIDS.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2007, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa launched an innovative effort to find an economic alternative to exploiting a massive oil reserve (the ITT block) beneath the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve and Yanomami Indian territory through international donations, or carbon markets, which would compensate Ecuador for leaving the oil in the ground.
Vision quest: who will control the future of the Amazon? A complex ... by Dudenhoefer, David / World Watch
Former journalist Richard Starks and travel writer and editor Miriam Murcutt relate their adventure along the mysterious Amazon in vivid detail, including a brush with a tribe of Yanomami Indians and a potentially dangerous confrontation with FARC guerillas.
Along the River that Flows Uphill by Small Press Bookwatch
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami has been dubbed 'the Dalai Lama of the Rainforest' after 20 years of international campaigning to secure Yanomami land rights and protect the rainforest from logging and mining operations.
'Dalai Lama of the rainforest' to visit North East by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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